It has seemed from the leaks the last few days that on the Plame outing and the related WMD fraud, the White House plans to have the buck stop with Dark Lord Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby.
Or, as Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade might have said, "That right, Scooter. You're takin' the fall!"
But the brilliant wordsmith James Wolcott (Scooter Libby: Shark Bait 10/22/05) has come up with an even better literary/cinematic reference for Karl Rove trying to make Scooter the main culprit. In the form of giving helpful advice to Scooter, Wolcott writes:
Karl Rove may be the one who more closely resembles Ned Beatty, but you're the one getting oinked in public, and it's not pretty.
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